Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of these grants, the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship in Greek Studies for the year 1929-30 on the basis of a thesis written on a subject in the field of the classics. Way gained his master's degree at Harvard in 1926, and is now pursuing work in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The David A. Wells Prize in Economics was won by John Van Sickle 21, for an essay entitled "Direct Taxation in Austria 1918-1923". Van Sickle got his bachelor's degree in 1927 at Cornell before coming to Harvard to study...
...Wells prize is awarded annually for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation within the field of Economics. The successful work will be published by the University. The competition was open to members of the Senior Class and to graduates in any department who are not of more than three years' standing...
...Harvard. It has never been the policy of the athletic authorities to encourage any one sport at the expense of another. If football happens to be the form of athletic activity that the majority wishes to participate in, there is no reason for requiring them to enter some other field merely because it needs support. The aim of the Athletic Association is to offer an opportunity for those who wish to participate in sports to take part in whatever game they prefer. It is not that the best men be assigned to the activity most in need of them...
...work in close harmony with the original ideals of its founder. That research study in the humanities is often neglected for more technical investigation, the significance of which the layman often fails to see, is perhaps natural under the increasingly mechanical dominance of our civilization. But the other field can not be entirely overlooked without destroying the balance between man and his machines...
Perhaps the most interesting of the awards is that given Professor La Piana to complete his work on the History of the Catholic Church in the United States. Various considerations, notably the inherent American distrust of emphasis on organized religion as a social force have hitherto prevented this field from receiving proper treatment. Only recently with the increasing interest in history as the story of men rather than of their generals has the importance of an institution, which has never had political aspirations on this continent been recognized. Such aid as is now given to the study of this virtually...